{"id":3286,"date":"2014-12-08T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2014-12-08T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:52:10","slug":"pop-goes-the-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Pop Goes the Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that some of you have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted in a couple weeks. The main reason is that I&#8217;ve been pretty busy doing my real job. I have made some time for chess (studying the games from my last tournament, in Reno) but not for chess blogging.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a little bit surprised by the Reno games. A couple games that I thought of as not too great actually turned out to be better played than I thought. There was a rook-and-pawn endgame where I thought my opponent just lost his mind, sacrificing a pawn with no compensation. But it turns out that he was probably losing already. His mistakes were earlier, and they were fairly subtle. That game will make a good blog post eventually. (Or a ChessLecture.)<\/p>\n<p>But not today! Today I have a brand new cat video to show you. You have to put up with this punishment because my chess blog is the only place where I can announce to the world when I put up a new YouTube video. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Pop-Up Kitty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6TNGRZciVMg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The music is called &#8220;Smiles and Chuckles,&#8221; and I hope the video gave you some of both. The URL is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TNGRZciVMg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TNGRZciVMg<\/a>. By the way, the kitten in the video (Obie) just went back to the shelter today, and we have high hopes for his being adopted very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that some of you have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted in a couple weeks. The main reason is that I&#8217;ve been pretty busy doing my real job. I have made some time for chess (studying the games from my last tournament, in Reno) but not for chess blogging. I&#8217;ve been a little bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,235],"tags":[843,3038,2381,2517,916],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endings","category-off-topic","tag-cats","tag-cuteness","tag-kittens","tag-videos","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}